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Nordlinger, still Nordlingin':

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/438799/memory-safire-nixon-relevance-trump

Here on the Corner, I’d like to say something about Before the Fall. That’s Safire’s memoir of the first Nixon administration. (In the old days, we referred to each term as an “administration.” So, 1985-89 would be “the second Reagan administration.”)

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 August 2016 22:29 (seven years ago) link

Donny McKinley · Studying at Student
"There was a time in my life when I read gobs and gobs of White House memoirs. This was when I was about 20, I think."

I was wondering what was wrong with this author when I saw his "impromptus" article, which is completely nonsensical and reads like a drug induced ramble.

I think I understand now. At 20, the rest of us had girls.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 23:10 (seven years ago) link

This is awesome

"It’s as if he lost his car keys in his rectum and he’s looking for them face first."

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/438949/donald-trump-sean-hannity-does-hannity-want-hillary-clinton-win

Tee her

El Tomboto, Saturday, 13 August 2016 16:30 (seven years ago) link

Not my man Hannity!

Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 13 August 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link

and empty a septic tank into the ground water of the conservative movement

that's not a septic tank it's a well

le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 13 August 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link

Jonah's always picking up his kids.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 August 2016 17:06 (seven years ago) link

POLL: Is Physical Strength an Important Aspect of Masculinity?

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:27 (seven years ago) link

and other polls jonah programs at a worried 3 a.m.

le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link

no one invited them to run a presidential campaign -- sad!

mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link

I think I understand now. At 20, the rest of us had girls.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

speak for yourself burrito

a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link

Dr Krauthammer wheels out "sage advice" for the beleaguered candidate

But I thought yesterday the speech he did outside Milwaukee on law and order was probably the best speech he’s had yet. Delivery is improving on when he is reading, and he restrained himself. And I think it wasn’t as if he was going to win the African-American vote, but what I think he needs to do — and that would go a long way to help — is to try to reassure the suburbanites, the soccer moms, that he is not a racist. That the things he has done in the past are far more benign, that his heart is in the right place. If he can do that — that was addressed not at the inner city, it was addressed at the suburbs — and if he can reassure traditional Republicans who could go for him in the general election, that he is okay, he is not toxic — that would be a big difference.

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Uh, OK. Trump needs to convince an all-white audience that's he's not racist, THEN he'll win.

indie fresh (m coleman), Thursday, 18 August 2016 02:35 (seven years ago) link

won't someone pls think of the white ppl

geometry-stabilized craft (art), Thursday, 18 August 2016 02:41 (seven years ago) link

welp Jonah got photo bombed by the 'alt right'.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 August 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link

Stan Gunn · Austin, Texas
Author of Liberal Fascism comes into contact with supporters of actual fascism. Hillarity ensues.

a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Thursday, 25 August 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link

James Woods
‏@RealJamesWoods James Woods Retweeted Kevin D. Williamson
What can be done to stop this slaughter?

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link

about Chicago murders

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link

https://twitter.com/DavidAFrench/status/774286995082227712

looool rough year

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 9 September 2016 17:12 (seven years ago) link

Lynda Armstrong ‏@gamsbo123 31m31 minutes ago Castroville, TX
@DavidAFrench don't understand why you want Hillary elected

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 September 2016 17:15 (seven years ago) link

No real surprise that Conrad Black looks up to a guy who can commit fraud for years without getting sent to prison for it.

On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 17:48 (seven years ago) link

To follow the apparently disinterested soldier-statesman, Eisenhower, and the agile bridge between the Goldwater Right and the Rockefeller Left, Nixon, and the artist of Morning in America, Reagan, comes now the man who will recapture the party of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt from the faint and ineffectual dissenters from the Clintons and Obama of the post-Reagan years.

le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link

they always hated Ike didn't they

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 18:00 (seven years ago) link

Republican Party now "like a house on fire with more flammable parts yet to come"

the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link

Tweet deleted.

On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 18:04 (seven years ago) link

lol just cos their tweet cms made it look like an editorial and not just part of the daily churn

goole, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link

man rich lowry really is a little feeb, they never should have fired john derbyshire imo, like fuck who cares if an old imperial racist writes for a conservative magazine? just as matter of business sense he could have had the whole alt-right vs ex-bush sad man right civil war happening within his own pages. dummy.

goole, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link

guess who:

But Republicans might ask themselves, “What does it mean that George Bush won’t vote for our nominee? What have we done, to lose George Bush? Is it worth it? Is it right?”

My guess is, a decision to vote for Hillary Clinton was painful to Bush. She is the wife of the man who defeated him for reelection in 1992. I bet he has never voted Democratic in his entire life.

And, as I note in my column, he knows a thing or two about the world. He flew against the Japanese — the youngest pilot in the Navy. He was a congressman. U.N. ambassador. Envoy to China. CIA director. Vice president. President. He has had a few intelligence briefings.

He knows the dangers, and he knows the stakes. He may even know as much as Trump.

So, if I were a Republican, I would not just write Bush off, or damn him as a RINO and traitor, etc. I would engage in some “serious self-reflection,” to borrow a term (an annoying one) from President Obama. What have we done to push George Bush into the arms of Hillary Clinton?

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/440237/first-president-bush-arms-hillary-clinton

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 13:06 (seven years ago) link

I guessed Jonah :(

Mordy, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 13:12 (seven years ago) link

i got it. his register and interests are v distinctive

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 13:20 (seven years ago) link

by KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ September 27, 2016 10:09 AM @KATHRYNLOPEZ

I found it somewhat flabbergasting that Hillary Clinton would voluntarily accuse Donald Trump of considering pregnancy and inconvenience. Abortion didn’t come up last night, and yet she managed to remind me of her extremism on this front. I get why she did – that is an awfully painful commercial to watch, her campaign’s, running the videotape of Trump talking about women – but her lack of self-awareness on this issue is telling.

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The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link

did Clinton say anything remotely controversial or unexpected on this topic?

Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link

well, she breathes oxygen

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link

I'm disappointed NRO hasn't sunk to the challenge of the election, and this thread's more than two years old

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 16:56 (seven years ago) link

KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ apparently cannot conceive of a life in which an unplanned pregnancy is potentially an economic, psychological and personal catastrophe. In her world all abortions are performed because the woman felt inconvenienced by pregnancy.

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 18:37 (seven years ago) link

in her world jack chick tracts are documentaries

nomar, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link

Go to hell, you turd: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/440547/skinny-miss-universe

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 September 2016 14:16 (seven years ago) link

Every one of'em has a column reminding readers that he or she did not support Trump.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 October 2016 02:54 (seven years ago) link

they really are [a little] smarter than the average republican

Mordy, Sunday, 9 October 2016 03:41 (seven years ago) link

Not that much smarter. They were shocked, shocked to find white nationalism in their establishment after all.

slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Sunday, 9 October 2016 03:46 (seven years ago) link

just a little smarter and just a [very] little bit less bigoted.

Mordy, Sunday, 9 October 2016 03:47 (seven years ago) link

oh man:

First, before accusing Trump of sexually assaulting women, it’s useful to remember that the only evidence we have of this is Trump’s own words. Unlike Bill Clinton, who has been accused by more than one actual, named, flesh-and-blood woman of everything from unwanted exposure (Paula Jones) to unwanted groping (Kathleen Willey) to rape (Juanita Broaddrick), we’ve yet to hear from a woman (other than a dubious lawsuit aimed at Trump and Clinton crony Jeffrey Epstein) or a witness of any kind to say that Trump actually ever did any of the things he claimed. Now, it would not surprise me if he had, given the attitude he displays in the video, given what we know of his sexual and marital history, and given Trump’s broader outrageous sense of entitlement. But if we have learned nothing else this entire campaign, we should have learned by now that just because Donald Trump says something doesn’t make it so. That’s doubly true when Trump is in full Trump mode, trying to impress another man with tales of what an alpha-dog Master of the Universe he is.

Second, there’s been a fair amount of hand-wringing among feminists and other social liberals over the entire concept of “locker room talk” – over men talking to other men about women and sex (especially their sexual conquests) in terms they would not use if a woman was around. Like most men, I’ve been around my share of conversations of this type, mostly in my teens and early twenties in the company of young men who are unmarried and hormonally overcharged. At some level, it’s not a phenomenon we could ever hope to completely eradicate, nor would it be completely desirable to do so (whatever you may hear from people who think masculinity itself should be abolished, we would not have gotten very far as a species without it). Women do have an ineradicable need for times and places to let their hair down and talk girl talk, and while boy talk may be rougher and different, men have the same need, especially when they are young and still figuring out the world and the opposite sex.

The next paragraph contradicts the second entirely.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 17:00 (seven years ago) link

a witness of any kind to say that Trump actually ever did any of the things he claimed

this is demonstrably untrue wtf

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link

there are tons of witnesses and accusers!

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link

Pffft -- WOMAN witnesses and accusers. They're hardly credible what with their hysterias and cycles and what have you.

GUNSHOW POOPHOLE (Phil D.), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 17:10 (seven years ago) link

Women do have an ineradicable need for times and places to let their hair down and talk girl talk, and while boy talk may be rougher and different, men have the same need, especially when they are young and still figuring out the world and the opposite sex.

a) this is bullshit anyway and b) Trump was 59 at the time.

Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 23:42 (seven years ago) link


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